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Apply for grants, scholarships, and bursaries to make funding your studies at CCCU easier.
£5000 per year awarded by the government
Students on the following courses will be eligible to receive this grant:
Students studying on our Mental Health Nursing and Diagnostic Radiography courses will also receive an additional £1000 per year from the government.
The Canterbury Christ Church University Advantage Package currently includes:
Futures Scholarships are aimed at students from disadvantaged backgrounds. You may come from a lower-income or disadvantaged family, be the first in your family to go to university, or have no family support at all. Students like you have the most to gain from university life. But you also have the most to worry about financially when you get here!
All Futures Scholarship awards will offer you £5,000 a year during your undergraduate studies, which is a significant contribution towards your cost of living, which will enable you to participate fully in university life. You’ll also receive access to a Futures Coach and bespoke workshops to build confidence and employability skills.
Find out more.
Available to undergraduate and PGCE students who meet the follow criteria:
£1000
There's an abundance of support for our students who are care leavers, including:
Find out more information about support for care leavers here.
You studied at one of our partner schools within the past five years. check our partner schools and colleges list to see if you are eligible
Eligible students will be contacted and invited to apply to the scheme. Due to limited places, there will be a shortlisting and interview process for applicants.
We are dedicated to supporting student athletes in both academic and sporting success through our Sport Scholarship programme.
The University is recognised by Sport England’s Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) as a Dual Career Accredited Site.
This acknowledges a commitment and element of academic flexibility, allowing talented student-athletes to balance their studies alongside a sporting schedule.
All scholars are supported in a variety of ways including:
Scholars must compete at one of the following levels:
Current and prospective students are encouraged to apply.
All sports scholars are required to engage with the program via a number of methods. These include:
For more information, contact sport@canterbury.ac.uk
Talented performers, composers or musicologists have the opportunity to secure one of the below scholarships available.
Financial support for career development opportunities, including group and individual funding.
We work in partnership with The Archdeacon of Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral) under the Article 26 Project to enable those seeking asylum to progress to higher education. To find out more, visit our Sanctuary Scholarship page.
PhD Scholarship including:
31 July 2024
The Section of Natural and Applied Sciences (NAS) is an interdisciplinary research department comprised of biomedical scientists, immunologists, bioinformaticians, and wildlife and ecology biologists, focused on research addressing current global challenges faced by society and the planet, ranging from health and disease to new ways to protect the natural world. Within the Biomedical Science theme, the department has research priorities in immunology, allergic responses, cancer biology, and stress responses.
Blood cells play important functions in the body, including transport of oxygen and nutrients, mounting immune responses against foreign pathogens, and formation of blood clots to stop bleeding. The subversion of these normal functions of blood cells leads to a variety of blood and immunological disorders, including allergies and anaphylaxis, autoimmune disorders, and blood cancers.
This PhD project will focus on studying the molecular and cellular processes that govern the behaviour of healthy cells of the blood system, explore how perturbations in this behaviour contribute to specific blood disorders, and develop novel therapies to combat these conditions. The project will combine state-of-the-art cell culture approaches on primary human cells and physiologically-relevant cell lines with modern molecular and cellular approaches to develop a programme of work aimed at defining key vulnerabilities of a blood disorder which can be therapeutically targetable.
The scholarship will be awarded to one applicant who will be involved in one of the following projects. Applicants should indicate their preference in their application.
Epidemiological studies indicate an inverse association between allergies and certain cancers. The aim of this project is to elucidate the role of basophils, and other allergic effector cells (e.g. eosinophils), in various cancers.
The project will include investigating the cytotoxic functions of basophils on various human cancer cell lines, their ability to modulate the anti-cancer functions of other cytotoxic immune cells, and the effects of cancer-derived immune checkpoint regulators on basophil function.
Together with clinical collaborators, we further aim to investigate the differential localisation of basophils in various cancer tissues ex vivo in view of assessing their role as prognostic biomarkers.
For more information on this project, please contact Professor Bernhard Gibbs.
Oncogenic calreticulin is a tumour-specific molecule that is present in patients with the pre-leukaemic condition called myelofibrosis. The student will be working with an early-stage chemotherapeutic compound that is capable of neutralising calreticulin.
The aims of the project will be to solve the biochemical structure of the anti-calreticulin drug and to test its anti-tumour activity and pharmacokinetic properties on patient samples and physiologically-relevant disease models.
For more information on this project, contact Dr. Edwin Chen.
For any queries about the application and admissions process please contact Postgraduate Admissions.
PhD Scholarship including:
8 July 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University has a large and vibrant postgraduate research community. In REF 2021, 61% of CCCU’s submitted research was judged to be either world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*). 84% of our impact case studies were rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*). The subject of education sits in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education. Our postgraduate students are fully involved in the research culture of the University, actively contributing to research networks, academic conferences, etc.
We are looking to appoint a PhD scholarship candidate interested in doing research connected in some way to the Education Research Schools Partnership, which is a consortium of fifteen primary and secondary schools in Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University.
Through this partnership we seek a “self-improving education systems in which teachers are research literate and have opportunities for engagement in research and enquiry” (BERA, 2014, p. 5).
We welcome a wide range of foci and/or research designs.
We would be happy to help interested applicants with their proposals and applications and to discuss supervising arrangement. For enquiries, please contact Professor Lynn Revell.
For any queries about the application and admissions process please contact Postgraduate Admissions.
PhD Scholarship including:
31 July 2024
The English Studies team at Canterbury Christ Church University, which includes separate courses in English Literature and Creative and Writing, has a vibrant research culture embedded in the local community. We have particular strengths in collaborating with external partners from the Parrot Theatre (Canterbury) to the Green Kitchen (Margate) to Discovery Planet (Ramsgate) to schools, libraries, museums, churches, and cinemas in Kent and beyond. Many of our research projects have global reach but regional roots, engaging in the rich literary history and landscape of the southeast. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 84% of our research and 100% of our outputs were graded at 4* (‘World-Leading’) or 3* (‘Internationally Excellent’).
The work of our team falls under two major research themes, ‘Reclaiming Narratives’ and ‘Memory and Place’, and encompasses a variety of individual specialisms including women’s writing, gothic literature, life writing, literary afterlives and adaptation, book history, place writing, psychogeography, writing and wellbeing, folklore and/or folk horror, experimental forms, and narrative and conflict. This research underpins a range of public engagement work that aims to involve marginalised voices in the sharing, adapting, and/or performing of texts. We view co-creation and mutual exploration of texts as central to engaging hard-to-reach pockets of the community in literature and writing.
We are looking for a PhD candidate who can join our team with a proposal in English Literature and/or Creative Writing that sits within the above research themes and helps to extend our work with community partners. The proposal can be related to any of the research areas listed above, but what has to be central is research that develops our long-standing commitment to community engagement and helps us to connect with new and difficult-to-reach voices.
For an informal discussion of your research proposal, please contact Dr Susan Civale.
For any queries about the application and admissions process please contact Postgraduate Admissions.